Simone is a sixth grader who hates to write. When she does write something, her stories and essays are short and lack any type of description. Her teachers are puzzled because there is a significant difference between the quality of Simone's ideas during class discussions and what she is able to put on paper. In science class Simone can be first to point out some of key or unusual aspect of a concept/process. However as soon as Simone has to write her ideas down, they seem to disappear. Her work is filled with spelling mistakes and has few transitional words. Sometimes she is so embarrassed by what she has produced that she doesn't hand it in.
Simone loves two classes-P.E. and math. In P.E. class she gets to talk to her friends and she is also becoming quite good at volleyball. The P.E. teacher even told her she should consider going out for the middle school volleyball team. Simone has been doing well in math class, especially with computations and word problems, and never gets nervous for a math test-unlike any of her other class exams.
Simone helps out in her parents' convenience store after school. She loves to talk to people who come into the store and helps her mother count the money and organize the sales receipts at the end of the day. Simone would much rather be helping in the store than doing anything else-especially homework.
Lately, Simone has become very inconsistent about turning in any of her writing assignments. She has been telling her parents that she doesn't have any homework, so her parents were quite surprised when her teacher called to say Simone had not been handing in her assignments.
Simone is a sixth grader who hates to write. When she does write something, her stories and essays are short and lack any type of description. Her teachers are puzzled because there is a significant difference between the quality of Simone's ideas during class discussions and what she is able to put on paper. In science class Simone can be first to point out some of key or unusual aspect of a concept/process. However as soon as Simone has to write her ideas down, they seem to disappear. Her work is filled with spelling mistakes and has few transitional words. Sometimes she is so embarrassed by what she has produced that she doesn't hand it in.
Simone loves two classes-P.E. and math. In P.E. class she gets to talk to her friends and she is also becoming quite good at volleyball. The P.E. teacher even told her she should consider going out for the middle school volleyball team. Simone has been doing well in math class, especially with computations and word problems, and never gets nervous for a math test-unlike any of her other class exams.
Simone helps out in her parents' convenience store after school. She loves to talk to people who come into the store and helps her mother count the money and organize the sales receipts at the end of the day. Simone would much rather be helping in the store than doing anything else-especially homework.
Lately, Simone has become very inconsistent about turning in any of her writing assignments. She has been telling her parents that she doesn't have any homework, so her parents were quite surprised when her teacher called to say Simone had not been handing in her assignments.
Adapted from All Kinds of Minds. (n.d.). Resources, Case Studies, Getting Thoughts on Paper, Simone– 6th grade. Retrieved from June 21, 2008 http://allkindsofminds.org/CategoryAll.aspx?section#CaseStudy